Letter to the Editor

What to do about this?

First, recognize the folly of trying to “address” the needs of every homeless individual from anywhere and everywhere. Change the strategy: Target generous assistance to those who became homeless while living or working in Santa Monica, not to any lawbreaker who drifts across the City line from anywhere in the region, state, and country. Challenge with energetic skepticism all advocates of the failed policies that plague Santa Monica.

Related to this folly, stop enticing more homeless individuals to come here, as Mayor Himmelrich proposed in her radio interview.

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